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CVS Health has agreed to pay a $22 million penalty after a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration investigation that found employees at two pharmacies in Sanford distributed controlled substances without legitimate prescriptions. The investigations into the two CVS pharmacies was a part of a DEA crackdown on Florida's pill mills. The stores are on Orlando Drive and West First Street in Sanford. In 2012, the DEA banned the stores from dispensing several controlled substances which included OxyContin, Vicodin, Ritalin and Xanax among others. "Prescription drug addicts were traveling to Florida, known as the nation's epicenter for the illegal distribution of prescription...

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